He scholde his vanite represse 2410
With suche wordes as he herde.
[The Emperor and his Masons.]
Lo nou, hou thilke time it ferde[1138]
Toward so hih a worthi lord:
Hic eciam contra adulacionem scribit quod primo die quo nuper Imperator intronizatus extitit, latomi sui ab ipso constanter peterent, de quali lapide sue sepulture tumulum fabricarent; vt sic futuram mortem commemorans vanitates huius seculi transitorias facilius reprimeret.[1139]
For this I finde ek of record,
P. iii. 167
Which the Cronique hath auctorized.
What Emperour was entronized,